Which will come as a surprise to the other 15 signatories - national leaders all - of the public letter he signed and published in June, basically warning Hungary's own national leader Viktor Orban to stop being a homophobic idiot. Don't get me wrong, it was a fine letter and an unusually swift European reaction to some particularly nasty and antediluvian anti-gay legislation passed a week earlier by the Hungarian parliament.

But it speaks volumes about our favourite diminutive Gaul that, faced with the awful reality that 27 souls had been lost because of his inability to stop criminal gangs running riot on his beaches, his chief concern seemed to be Britain's Prime Minister hadn't made the necessary diplomatic curtsies before addressing him.

And the inherent rampant hypocrisy and double-standards? We sort of take that on the nod these days when dealing with Macron.

There are a multitude of problems here which stand in the way of achieving an effective Anglo-European solution to the so-called "migrant crisis" and stemming the growing tide of death.

There's Britain and the EU's famously generous benefits systems for a start, then there's the EU's disastrous Schengen scheme for a no-borders Europe, Vladimir Putin's asymmetric warfare plan to flood the EU and UK with as many drains on their economy as possible, France's historic annoyance at being bailed out of not one but two world wars, the fortunes to be made from near zero-risk (to the gangs) people trafficking, the enthusiasm for simply passing migrants on to the next country in the chain, the seeming inability to return a single illegal migrant to their home country... and on, and on.

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So good luck with today's meeting guys. And of course I'm talking about the Channel migrant crisis meeting Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel has been banned from because poor little Emmanuel Macron felt Boris had been a bit rude to him.

I mean, what chance have you got?

It is playground stuff but it is not going away. Indeed now Michel Barnier - a man who during Brexit negotiations even managed to make the word "friends" sound like an immediate threat to life - has joined in the Gallic Brit-bashing free-for-all.

In a genuine call-the-men-in-white-coats moment Barnier has demanded France tear up its migrant treaty with Britain and actively aid the sending of asylum-seekers across the Channel.

And this remember is the man the EU deemed its most slick and highly-skilled diplomat.

Barnier, who has leadership potential in roughly the same way Screaming Lord Sutch had leadership potential, has vowed to scrap the one bilateral treaty we have (the 2003 Le Touquet Agreement) which makes even the slightest bit of sense.

But we are no longer surprised. Modern politics is not about getting things done it's about getting elected. And creating a fake foreign enemy to distract from real issues and real failings at home is politics 101. Just ask Vladimir Putin.

And so, roughly 96 hours after the bodies were picked out of the Channel, we await the outcome of another pointless meeting which cannot possibly achieve anything because Macron can't possibly lose face and meet Britain half way.

Libert, galit, and fraternit indeed.

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Macron's hatred of Britain will guarantee the migrants keep coming, says PAUL BALDWIN - Daily Express